by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
A child's amaze
Language: English
Silent and amazed even when a little boy, I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements, As contending against some being or influence.
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "A child's amaze", appears in Leaves of Grass, first published 1900 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ronald A. Beckett , "A child's amaze", 2015 [ voice and strings ], from By the roadside, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006), "A child's amaze", 1975, published 1979 [ soprano and piano ], from By the Roadside: Six Songs to Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 6, Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2005-10-12
Line count: 3
Word count: 28